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Heman Humphrey (March 26, 1779 – April 3, 1861) was a 19th-century United States author and clergyman who served as a trustee of Williams College and afterward as the second president of Amherst College, a post he held for 22 years. Heman Humphrey: Second President Amherst College Archives & Special Collections Heman Humphrey and John R. Rice on Revival Praying William Stearns, President (amherstiana.org) Heman Humphrey, President (amherstiana.org)
Humphrey graduated from Yale University with an A.M. in 1805 and was ordained a Congregational minister on March 16, 1807. He became a minister in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1807, moving to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1817. His 1813 report to the Fairfield Association is one of the earliest temperance tracts published in America. "Humphrey, Heman" in The Cyclopaedia of Temperance and Prohibition, 234 (New York: 1891) Humphrey is also said to have published six articles in The Panoplist and Missionary Magazine on the cause, origin, effects and remedy of intemperance. Fourth Report of the American Temperance Society, 69 (Boston: 1831)
Following his tenure at Williams College, in 1823 he was appointed president of Amherst. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1842. Humphrey was influential in the nineteenth-century temperance movement and typical of the early proponents of prohibition.(Hugins, Walter (ed.), The Reform Impulse, 1825–1850). Columbia, SC 1972 He was the father of U.S. Representative James Humphrey.
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